To bring the Bud rising festival to life we sent ‘Bud Rock’, champion air guitarist, out on the streets to bring the music festival to the fans on the streets. Check it out:
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RTE reports that the naming rights for Lansdowne Road are for sale. “The sale of the stadium naming rights could end up earning the IRFU and FAI up to €75million over 15 years.” As the article points out also the move is likely to be unpopular with supporters. Labour TD, Ruairi Quinn, was first out of the blocks to condemn the move, highlighting the fact that the venue is the oldest international rugby stadium.
Cian Ginty points out that “UCD are set to run awards for business journalism in the Republic and Northern Ireland…With a fund of €12,000 the awards are open to journalists who work for newspapers, radio, television, magazines, newsletters, commercial electronic media. This includes Irish outlets and Irish editions of UK publications. Categories include business news, business comment, business feature, Business Technology Journalist, business broadcast, specialist business reporting, regional business reporting, and Young Journalist of the Year. Winner of each will get €1,500.”
Darran Crowley has spotted RTE making changes to their competitors’ entries on Wikipedia. FM104 have responded in the media over the weekend by calling for an internal investigation by RTE. However RTE has stated that any changes made by their personnel were made in a personal capacity.
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The BBC reports that Apple has launcheed its video downloads service in the UK with 28 series available for download with Apple promising more content soon. The launch happened during the same week that Vint Cerf delivered the Alternative McTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh, who “TV was rapidly approaching the same kind of crunch moment that the music industry faced with the arrival of the MP3 player. ‘85% of all video we watch is pre-recorded, so you can set your system to download it all the time,” he said. “You’re still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later.‘ “(via Bobbie Johnson)
Silicon Republic highlights a new “service that enables users to create and publish personalised newspapers compiled from their favourite blogs and news sites…The software automatically lays out the blog posts, creating a PDF newspaper without the need for designers or sub-editors that can be printed out.“
ElectricNews report that “Over 50,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK will be better off financially after YouTube agreed to a royalty deal for songs used in videos.”
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